Ron Axelrod

Biography

Mr. Axelrod received a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, Mr. Axelrod joined the Jet Engine Division of GE, where he worked for ten years designing components for jet engines and steam turbines. Mr. Axelrod left GE to start a business brokering network and communications equipment. In the days before eBay, there was great opportunity to buy and sell large quantities of used computer equipment throughout the US, warehousing the products, then brokering deals with large resellers worldwide. Mr. Axelrod visited over 100 countries including having driven a Land Rover from London down west Africa to Gabon, as well as having traveled down the Sepic River in Papua New Guinea aboard a catamaran with Jaques Cousteau’s crew. Mr. Axelrod visited the apes in Uganda and the Congo and spent a year and a half traveling east Africa and its islands. Approximately six years ago, Mr. Axelrod was diagnosed with an aggressive, life threatening form of MS. His research into the disease led to an extreme interest in biomedical research, particularly stem cell research, which has the potential of curing MS as well as many other currently incurable conditions. Mr. Axelrod is convinced that Minerva’s technology holds the key to unraveling the mysteries of stem and cancer cell growth, which the Company discovered were mediated by the same molecule. Mr. Axelrod became an investor in Minerva and began working pro bono on behalf of the Company. In 2006, Mr. Axelrod formally joined Minerva as Operations Manager, which includes investor relations, negotiating leases, purchasing equipment and reagents as well as maintaining all necessary operational licenses. 

Research Interest

Minerva Biotechnologies is developing cancer immunotherapies and cancer drugs to target 80% of solid tumors and to prevent cancer metastasis. Our stem cell technology could transform the field of regenerative medicine.